Old school sale faces snag

Published 11:04 pm, Sunday, May 13, 2018

Meredosia-Chambersburg Community Unit School District doesn’t own the street on which the closed elementary school sits, which could complicate any efforts to sell the old building.

The school was built around 1913 in the middle of Morgan Street. District Superintendent Thad Walker told school board members that he was unable to track down any paperwork that gave the school permission to build on the street.

Walker is going to attend May’s Meredosia village board meeting to try to resolve the dilemma.

The school board plans to set a minimum price and sell the closed school building via sealed bid. There are two parties interested in the building; one wants to turn the building into an apartment complex and one wants to turn it into an antiques mall.

Walker also told board members that an instructor in the North Greene school district paid $100 to haul scrap metal from the closed school.

In other business, plans for the summer at Meredosia-Chambersburg Junior-Senior High School were discussed, including renovations, security-system and fence installations, hiring summer help, and summer school.